I would not recommend fink for the mac at this point. It's a bit outdated and clunky. It uses apt-get but more or less forces you to build from scratch. Homebrew is much better. And MacVim is the way to go for vim.

nom e1cd4c: OUTPUT«No applicable candidates found to dispatch to for 'Real'. Available candidates are:␤:(Mu, Mu %_)␤␤ in method Real at src/gen/CORE.setting:643␤ in sub infix:<>> at src/gen/CORE.setting:2194␤ in sub infix:<>> at src/gen/CORE.setting:2194␤ in block <anon> at /tmp/CP9…

coke: right. but by doing that they ultimately slow things down. that's why it makes sense ff is not yet implemented; i'm pretty sure it ought to be done in terms of lower level p6 that should be the same across most p6 impls

sorear++ regularly panics about the CLR startup overhead, and thinks about other backends, but I don't see that mono is going away any time soon, given that it's still the most performant implementation once it gets going